What causes constant burping?
Most burping is swallowed air: fast eating, carbonated drinks, chewing gum, drinking through straws, and anxious air-gulping that people rarely notice themselves doing.
Slowing meals and dropping fizzy drinks fixes the majority within a week.
Burping with burning, regurgitation or upper belly pain points to reflux or gastritis, and persistent new symptoms in anyone over 50, or with weight loss or swallowing trouble, deserve investigation rather than habit fixes alone.
Source: NHS, indigestion
See a doctor promptly if
- Food sticking or difficulty swallowing, or pain on swallowing
- Unintentional weight loss with indigestion or bloating
- Vomiting blood, or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
- Black tarry stools, or a new diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia
- Persistent vomiting, or a mass felt in the upper abdomen
- New persistent bloating on most days for three weeks or more, especially in women over 50
Try the symptom diary10 seconds a day, free, nothing to installGut symptoms travel with food, stress and timing, and nobody reconstructs that from memory.
Answered by the AskDoc Medical Team · Medically reviewed under our Medical Director, MBBS · How we review
For reflux at night
Raising the chest on a wedge works with gravity where stacked pillows fail. Doctors suggest it before adding more medicine.
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